Cookie Policy

Torfaen County Borough Council uses cookies to personalise user experience on the website, and to track how our site is being used. Here you can find out more about how we use them.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small, harmless files placed on your computer’s hard drive or in your browser memory when you visit a website

What do cookies do?

Cookies help to make the interaction between users and websites faster and easier. What cookies don't do is store any personal or confidential information about you.

Are cookies safe?

Yes, cookies are harmless text files. They can’t look into your computer or read any personal information or other material on your hard drive. Cookies can’t carry viruses or install anything harmful on your computer.

Why should I keep cookies switched on?

We advise you to keep cookies active during your visits to our website because parts of the site rely on them to work properly.

Cookies currently used

This website uses cookies in several places – we’ve listed each of them below along with more details about why we use them and how long they will last.

Strictly necessary cookies

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Name: cc_cookie
Service: webster.uk.net
Description: CookieConsent cookie to apply end-user cookie consent preferences.
Expiration: Expires after 1 year

Name: sparrow_id
Service: Cloudflare.com
Description: Used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis.
Expiration: Expires after 180 days

Name: cf_logged_in
Service: Cloudflare.com
Description: Part of the security firewall for Cloudflare authorisation (e.g. identifying trusted users).
Expiration: Expires after 31 days

Name: cflb
Service: Cloudflare.com
Description: Allows Cloudflare to return an End User to the same Customer origin for a specific period of time (Customer-configured), which in turn allows the Customer origin to maintain an End User’s experience seamlessly (for example, keeping an End User’s items in a shopping cart while they continue to navigate around the website).
Expiration: Expires after a few seconds

Name: cfruid
Service: Cloudflare.com
Description: This cookie is set by HubSpot’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider in connection with their rate-limiting policies
Expiration: Expires after session end

Name: cf_bm
Service: Cloudflare.com
Description: Cloudflare bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots.
Expiration: Expires after a few seconds

Name: cfmrk_cic
Service: Cloudflare.com
Description: Used by Cloudflare to route user traffic for this site.
Expiration: Expires after 90 days

Statistics cookies

Statistics services are needed to collect pseudonymous data about the visitors of the website. The data enables us to understand visitors better and to optimise the website.

Name: _ga
Service: Google
Description: Used by Google Analytics to collect data on website traffic
Expiration: Expires after 2 years

Name: ga#
Service: Google
Description: Used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit.
Expiration: Expires after 2 years

Functional cookies

Functional services are necessary to provide features beyond the essential functionality such as prettier fonts, video playback or interactive web 2.0 features.

Name: AEC
Service: Google
Description: Used by Google and YouTube to detect spam, fraud, and abuse to help ensure advertisers are not incorrectly charged for fraudulent or otherwise invalid impressions or interactions with ads
Expiration: Expires after 6 months

Name: APISID, HSID, SAPISID, SIDCC, SSID
Service: Google
Description: Used by Google and YouTube to display personalised advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions.
Expiration: Expires after 2 years

Name: CONSENT
Service: YouTube
Description: Used to communicate the consent status to Google and YouTube
Expiration: Expires after 1 year

Name: DSID
Service: DoubleClick.net
Description: Used to identify a logged in user on non-Google sites and to store user preferences regarding ad personalisation
Expiration: Expires after 14 days

Name: DV
Service: Google
Description: Used to collect information about how visitors use the site and use the information to compile reports and to help improve the site
Expiration: Expires after session end

Name: _gcl_au
Service: YouTube
Description: Used by Google and YouTube for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.
Expiration: Expires after 3 months

Name: GN_PREF
Service: Google
Description: No description
Expiration: Expires after session end

Name: id
Service: DoubleClick.net
Description: No description
Expiration: Expires after 13 months

Name: LOGIN_INFO
Service: YouTube
Description: Used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website
Expiration: Expires after 6 months

Name: LSID
Service: Google
Description: Carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website
Expiration: Expires after 2 years

Name: NID, OTZ, OSID
Service: Google
Description: Used by Google for preferences tracking and advertising
Expiration: Expires after 6 months

Name: SID
Service: Google
Description: Used to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorised parties
Expiration: Expires after 2 years

Name: PREF
Service: YouTube
Description: Used to store user preferences
Expiration: Expires after 180 days

Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Service: YouTube
Description: Used by YouTube to measure internet bandwidth to determine if user gets new or old YouTube player interface
Expiration: Expires after 180 days

Name: VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA
Service: YouTube
Description: Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain
Expiration: Expires after 180 days

Name: YSC
Service: YouTube
Description: Used by YouTube to track views of embedded videos
Expiration: Expires after session

Name: __Secure-3PSID, __Secure-1PSID, __Secure-3PAPISID, __Secure-1PSIDCC, __Secure-1PAPISID
Service: Google & YouTube
Description: Targeting cookie. Used by Google and YouTube for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitors interests to show relevant & personalised Google advertising
Expiration: Expires after 1 year

Name: __Secure-YEC
Service: YouTube
Description: Stores the users video player preferences using embedded YouTube video
Expiration: Expires after 1 year